Category: Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift Servers, a global multiplayer hosting solution, added support for container fleets in 2024. This feature enables customers to run containerized game servers at global scale. To make onboarding to container fleets streamlined for customers, we launched the Amazon GameLift Servers Containers Starter Kit Solution. The solution allows you to take any existing game […]

Jackbox Games is a Chicago-based game studio best known for its lineup of popular party-game hits such as Quiplash, Fibbage, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party, and more. With 50 games and counting in its catalog, Jackbox Games offers something for everyone—whether it’s a drawing game, a trivia game, a hidden identity game, or beyond. Jackbox Games’ […]

Amazon GameLift Anywhere enables game developers to streamline their development workflow with local testing and development of multiplayer game servers and seamless transition paths to managed Amazon EC2 or container fleets for production deployment.

Demonstrating the extreme scalability of Amazon GameLift, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has benchmark tested support for up to 100 million concurrent users (CCU) for a single game—a groundbreaking feat for the AWS managed solution. Amazon GameLift alleviates developers’ game server hosting concerns by dynamically scaling backend resources. The test also showcased how Amazon GameLift can […]

In the last two decades, platforms like Steam and Roblox have made it easier to break into video game publishing. However, with so many titles to choose from, it can be difficult for publishers to break through the competitive noise. To boost visibility and engagement for its growing library of titles, international game development studio […]

QORPO elevates gaming with AWS-powered generative AI and scalable server hosting, crafting immersive experiences like “AneeMate” and “Citizen Conflict” that captivate players with personalized gameplay.

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed game server hosting solution designed to simplify the deployment, operation, and scaling of multiplayer game servers. With Amazon GameLift, game developers can focus on creating immersive player experiences while offloading the complexity of managing infrastructure. It provides global scalability, high performance, and cost efficiency, making it an ideal choice […]

The countdown to AWS re:Invent 2024 is on, with the annual five-day event set to kick off in Las Vegas, NV on Monday, December 2, 2024. re:Invent 2024 festivities include keynotes featuring AWS leaders sharing the latest cloud and generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. Attendees can check out an expo floor packed with technology demonstrations, […]

Containers have become increasingly popular for hosting game servers, and for a good reason. The benefits include isolated resources per game session, and consistency across environments from your workstation to development and production. Amazon GameLift, a purpose-built solution for global game server hosting, recently launched containers support in general availability. This feature allows you to […]

Many game developers struggle to build game backend systems that can scale for large numbers of players, especially during events like game launches where there can be very high and unpredictable amounts of traffic. Nakama, a game backend service from the company Heroic Labs (an AWS partner), aims to solve this problem. The Nakama platform […]